How do i use a 64gb sdxc card on my windows 7 64bit laptop?

Hi, i have just bought a sandisk 64gb extreme pro sdxc memory card for my camera, it works fine in the camera and saves pics to it, but every time i open it in windows it tells me i have to format the card, when i do format it, it goes through the whole process and then tells me the operation cannot complete.

I know the card is formatted as exfat, does windows 7 not support this?

my laptop uses windows 7 64bit.

Can anyone please advise as i am not sure how i am going to get any pictures in the future onto my laptop.

thanks

James

 

Windows does support exfat

I`ve seen that happen sometimes to me with a corrupted SD Card, it would work in my mobile device, but not on my computer

Try formatting it on the computer after backing it up then recopy the stuff and see if that works, maybe the formatting done by the camera was glitchy

 

This sounds like something didn't format right for your SD and how are you reading your SD card? Are you using the built in or dongle reader for the SD card? Also did you make sure you loaded the carder reader sometimes if you leave that out the computer can't identify the card and wants to format it. Also we have no specs of what system your using to read the card and that system could have issues itself resulting in not being able to read the card.

Windows should be able to read exFat cards as mentioned in wikipedia....

exFAT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ExFat is primary used in SD memory card but should be able to read in the right reader. Example I have 64gb SD card and my laptop reader can read and see the card. I even used the camera to format the SD card first and pop into my laptop reader and it finds and can see it's content.

 

Another thought...Where did you buy that card. I ask because there are Sandisk knockoffs that are counterfeit and are just junk.

 

Hi, Just to update on this issue that im still getting.

I have just tested my Kingston card reader and my new 64gb sdxc card on another pc that’s also running windows 7 and hey presto, the card opens fine.

So i can now rule out it being the card at fault and also the card reader, it has to be something to do with my windows 7 on my laptop, not sure if anyone here would be able to offer any advice with knowing the above.

Unfortunately the obvious thing i would consider would be to just reinstall / repair install windows, but unfortunately my laptop, which is a Lenovo e530 comes with windows pre-installed and no discs to just reinstall, the laptop does have a function to do a factory reset from the built in installation setup files, but of cause you would lose everything and i don’t really want to do that, i would rather look at ways to correct the issue first.

Can anyone please offer any advice?

Regards

James

 

Try reinstalling the card reader drivers?


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for posterity, exFAT is a Microsoft proprietary FS.